Tuesday, January 28

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Daily News Stuff 28 January 2025

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  • You can't predict how AI will behave.  (Scientific American)

    You can't predict how people will behave either, except in general terms.  Toddlers are going to do toddler things.  Malignant dirtbags are going to do malignant dirtbag things.

    AIs are going to do AI things.  Stop acting surprised.

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Musical Interlude


Song is Everything Now by Canadian band Arcade Fire.  Anime is Ano Natsu de Matteru - Waiting in the Summer - which is sort of but not exactly a retelling of the older Onegai Teacher only better.

I like this video more than the original one released by Arcade Fire themselves.  The anime is bittersweet, where the music video looks like Nebraska after the zombie apocalypse burned itself out.


Disclaimer: Zombies are going to do zombie things.

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1 The elephant in the room of the wider AI discussions is the cult or cults which want something from fancy magic computers that they do not get behavior wise from other humans.  Some want other humans to do what they want.  Some want something like a human, but instead does what they want.  And some are mad that few Christians are bowing to their stone or wood idols, and think that a silicon idol means that the culture's magical thinking around silicon will result in the bowing by Christians. 

And the AI safety folks going 'but what if you can ask the AI how to make a bomb' are both ignorant and stupid.  Proof in full is long, but bombs don't work perfectly the first time unless you are trained very well, and have a great recipe, so randos with averaged recipes are gonna have trial and error, and are not super likely to be invisible. 

Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, January 29 2025 02:27 AM (rcPLc)

2 As we learned with The Anarchist Cookbook.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 29 2025 05:07 PM (PiXy!)

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